Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Rug

Sometimes depicts one’s financial state, bare floorboards being poverty; can be the colour or design that are important; comfort or lack of it in life – do you feel satisfied with self; a cover up; feeling of being walked on.

Ruins

An old and now useless way of life you led in the past; a particular personality structure that has now broken down; feelings you have abut some aspect of your life. The ruins in many dreams are shown as a castle, and this suggests the defences you used at one time to survive, but are now not necessary.

Run Running

Running with exuberance in a dream suggest you are flowing with life energy, or strong and easy motivation.

You can run to or run away, or even run from someone or something, so it is important in some dreams to define which one it is. Also it is important to define if you are running to get somewhere, to reach a goal, or simply running as an expression of exuberance, or to get fit. See: Chased.

Running away: Avoiding something; trying to get away from something, your own emotions or sexuality for instance, so not meeting problems in a way that will resolve them. This can indicate anxiety about what you are running from. It might be old painful experiences or feelings of guilt.

Running to: Trying to reach a goal, so an energetic attempt to get somewhere. If you are running toward someone or in relationship to someone such as children, this suggests feelings of responsibility and self-giving. But in some dreams it is evident the dreamer is sometimes running toward danger.

Running to get fit: It can suggest you are taking your health seriously. It depends on why you are running though. Are you running because you have an underlying fear that in fact is making you run to avoid death? If so it is better to meet the feelings of fear of death, and when that is done you can run with good feelings. See Fear Frightened

Running something like a business: Meeting the challenges of running your own individual way of life. Or depending what the dream is maybe about your own business information. See business woman/man

Running with great pleasure: The unhindered flow of your innate self, so an expression of the person you can be if the tensions, blockages and hesitations are dropped away.

Running without knowing why: Uncertainty or lack of clarity about what you are feeling or expressing – where you are going to or from.

As if made of lead: Held back by one’s own hesitations. Or maybe, because you are a life-form, and so are created by the process of Life, and because life has a flow or current which carries you forward all the time, through babyhood, childhood, adolescence, and onwards, you could be trying to fight the current. See: Paralysis; Sleep Paralysis; Opening to Life

Idioms: Run for one’s money; run of the house; out of the running; on the run; run along; run down; run for it; run out of steam; run out on someone; run up against; run wild.

 

Useful questions and hints:

Does this show a sense of urgency and haste?

Am I trying to escape from an emotion or fear?

What do I feel as I am running or watching someone run?

Could it simply be a feeling of exuberance and life energy?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Working with associations – Makes Inner World – Allowing the Spontaneous

 

 

Rust

Negligence; sense of ageing; seeing how transitory worldly things are. It might imply that something connected with you has not been taken care of, is worn out and might not be of service. So something encrusted with rust suggests not only age but also lack of use.

Rust is a sign of how iron consumes itself, so there may be a suggestion of this in the dream, rust appearing on something that is consuming itself. Is something corroding your life?

Rust on some things makes them work less efficiently, so the dream rust might be saying things need cleaning up for your life to work well. If you dreamt of rust, it might indicate neglect, lack of care, old age, or a “rusty” skill.

 Example: It was a big room – a bathroom; old-fashioned and high-ceilinged. It was a mess, and I thought the first thing I could do was to set-to and clean it (the bath, sink, everything was dirty and grimy). However, when I went to the bath to clean it, I saw that the back of the bath had all rusted away, so it was beyond being cleaned, a completely new bath was needed.

Sack

Things you carry around with you or feel a need for, so may link with acquisitiveness on a mundane level. May suggest unemployment, or fear of it if the dream connects with work. But the sack sometimes refers to the womb, or feelings connected with the womb state – non-striving, peace, and a feeling of being part of things. Being in a sack might show you facing feelings about death.

The phrase ‘hit the sack’ refers to going to bed. The sack may hold things that you do not know about, only to be revealed if you explore or are shown – the future perhaps?

Americans use of sack can mean a strong paper or plastic bag for groceries – in the UK and US sack means a strong large bag made of hessian. (He turns around so we can see his butt. Two pounds of butter is in a plastic sack and stapled to his shorts.)

A paper sack suggests something similar – things you carry around that you feel are needed. Mostly this indicates sureness about being able to meet the various demands of daily life. The paper sack might also connect with emptiness and fullness – whether you have your needs or have got what you want.

Things you carry around with you or feel a need for, so may link with acquisitiveness on a mundane level. May suggest unemployment, or fear of it if the dream connects with work.

Something alive that you have captured and carry with you.

But the sack sometimes refers to the womb, or feelings connected with the womb state – non-striving, peace, and a feeling of being part of things. Being in a sack might show you facing feelings about death.

 Example: I was to teach a class in cooking. I had a sack full of papers, food stuffs, etc. I went to the office to see if I could make some schedule changes at the last minute but no dice. Sherrie said the recipe sounded good. She’d like a taste.

Example: A needle was stuck in my left arm and my chest was being cut open – it didn’t hurt. There was a lot of activity. They said I had gone. I was trying desperately to let them know I was still there. Then I was in a bag and sliding off a table. The bag was tied above my head. Then from the confined darkness I was free. There was a brilliant light all around. I could still see the sack with a body still in it far behind me. I was incredibly happy and full of energy. Trish L.

Example: In the dream I entered a cave and I saw a dragon resting inside, it woke up, saw me and we stared at one another for a moment and then it moved and I saw a sack of diamonds and diamonds overflowing/ coming out from the cave wall, it looks like the dragon was guarding it.

Idioms: as dumb as a sack of hammers; sack out; potato sack; a sad sack; got the sack; give him the sack; an empty sack can’t stand upright; Let’s hit the sack. fart sack; made the sack

Useful questions and hints:

What type of sack was it and what was it used for?

Is this about the materials I carry around with me that I feel I have a need for?

Does this possibly indicate fear of unemployment (being homeless)?

Does it feel like a safe and peaceful place – the womb?

Am I thinking about or frightened of death?

Are you unconsciously carrying something alive in your sack?

See Trap Trapped Trapping – Simple Truths – Karma – Martial Art of the Mind

Sacrifice

The surrendering or giving up of some part of yourself; or sacrificing the wishes of others for your own purposes. It can sometimes show some sort of decision, or point of change, where a sacrifice is made in order to grow. It can therefore represent being able to let go of something. The sacrifice, shown in some dreams as a human sacrifice, may be painful. See: Bull.

May refer directly to feeling someone is or will make you a scapegoat; sometimes connected with decision making – we cannot have all things at once, so we are willing to sacrifice one thing for another. It occurs in some dreams that where a change is occurring in one’s personality – parts of our nature we once identified with – can now be allowed to die to the process of growth.

Also sacrifice often depicts a strange fact of human psychology. Some aspects of oneself grow in strength and maturity by letting them ‘die’. While we maintain a behaviour pattern or belief, it stays in its habitual form. When we let go of it, a new approach can emerge.

The beautiful and self-sacrificing side of love – it often leads to a form of death, but also of rebirth, and thus a meeting with the universal life of which you are a part, and a connection with it through self sacrifice or surrender.

Such death is basically a point of transformation and sacrifice, what you are willing to sacrifice may suggest what you give the highest value to in your life, and what you worship; perhaps what you are sacrificing.  To know who you are, or what the underlying reality is, you have to be willing to be sacrificed in this way.

Perhaps, just as we recap our ancestor’s physical stages of development, in the maturing process of our psyche, we have to recap these psychic processes also. The coming of a Messiah gradually broke into the age of lust and slavery. Certainly the question of what is one’s fundamental nature might not be answered until one was willing to be sacrificed as a saviour.

 Example: I am going through masses of evolutionary feelings. The struggle to develop self-consciousness, and how the Messiah was first of all a fantasy, then an embodiment. Then how other people lived certain aspects of it, and were taken to be the Messiah, the Krishna, whatever. They did bring into the body another type of awareness, that mankind had been struggling toward for so long. This is where the mystery of the birth of Christ comes from. Why there is no real historical person. Why there is so much myth and legends surrounding such events. It is the embodiment of something mankind needed so much, to help them out of their crisis, for such men and women lived showing no fear of death and loved beyond the sexual impulse – they gave themselves.

Useful questions and hints:

Do I feel that I have surrendered or given up a part of myself for something or someone?

Does it imply sacrificing the wishes of others for my own purposes?

Is this a ritual sacrifice where an animal is involved? (If so, look up the animal in question and come up with a definition of how this relates to your current life. Go back into the dream if needed to get more information)

See Meetings with Christ – Servant – Life’s Basic Functions – 

Saddle

A way to have an easier and more comfortable way to deal with your instincts. A horse within us for instance is a dynamic power and a means of locomotion; it carries one away like a surge or instinct. It is subject to panics like all instinctive creatures which lack higher consciousness. But humans also are prone to panic attacks and are often subject to massive fears and anxieties – just like all other mammals. The great difference is that when the threat had gone the horse calms down, but the human can play it over again and again causing havoc within them.

Saddling a horse is a major step in helping the horse to become ‘domesticated’ – and in a dream this represent taking on social responsibility.

How you deal with getting in the saddle and dealing with the horse shows how well you can handle your instinctive side of you nature, because in fact, “You ride an ancient beast.” The ancient beast is your body, and your conscious self is the modern and recent rider of it. See Horse Horses

If thrown from saddle: Out of control of your ability to deal with your

natural urges.

Riding well without a saddle: Feeling in complete harmony with your natural urges and sexual feelings, as in dream example.

Example: I was allowed the use of a huge dark brown horse. I climbed on its bare back. I had asked for it not to be saddled. But it didn’t have a bridle either. This made me apprehensive as I felt I would not be able to direct the horse. The horse galloped along. I found that I felt good on its back, and if I leaned in the direction I wanted to go, the horse would turn. As I rode I felt now in wonderful harmony and rhythm with the horse. So, much so I almost had an orgasm.

Example: Coming in from the desert. The man I am with – the teacher – tells me it is time I have my own horse and gives me a horse/pony – not tall, maybe 14/15 hands high called Ginger. I am returning to the stables and lead Ginger back. I have a saddle and bridle too. At one point I have the saddle on Ginger’s rump and she tries to go off in another direction. I tell her that we aren’t going there.

Example: I had a dream where I took a pony to a terraced house. I entered and discovered two police officers living there who I knew. I had to get out as they would be angry with me. I had written something in chalk on their steps. A female officer saw me and I galloped off bareback up the road. The pony had no shoes either.

Your dream shows you learning to direct your natural energy – the pony, with no saddle or shoes, meaning not tamed – but there’s a bit of a struggle with conforming – suggesting that you are still learning to be an adult not conforming but not being a spoilt child either. You’re doing okay though. So, feel good on the pony, but don’t run away from the police. Balance the two.

Example: I was in a field, a low hilltop, and the field was ploughed. My friend John was with me. There was a young but large, slightly long haired horse with us. It was the size of the medium sized cart horses of my childhood. I had been helping or encouraging John to ride the horse, but he found this difficult and didn’t manage it for long. So, I got on the horse and started riding it to show John how it was done. John became very excited about this. I had the sense that he really wanted to know or see that it was possible. Or maybe the excitement was that I could demonstrate that it could be done.

As we were crossing the brow of a hill the horse broke into an exuberant gallop. He ran as horses run sometimes as they gallop in high spirits – not in any particular direction. At first I felt concerned about this. Firstly, in case I was unseated – but that was okay and there was no sense of falling off so I began to relax.

John was a person the dreamer often helped dealing with problems, so John not doing so well on the horse shows the dreamer has to be aware and deal with the situation. He feels concern when the horse lets its full energy express but he soon can relax as he feels he doesn’t have to be in control because the horse and the rider become one. See Control Controlled Controlling

Idioms: saddled with; saddle up; tall in his saddle; burr under your saddle; like a saddle on a sow; back in the saddle; saddled with.

Useful questions and hints:

Am I being ‘saddled’ or imposed upon in some way, or imposing on someone else?

How does the dream suggest I am dealing with my natural urges?

What am I feeling in the dream?

 

Sadism Sadist

This might connect with childhood hurts you are not fully facing, and so living out on others, ore feel are lived out on yourself, or a sexual problem leading to hurtfulness instead of love.

Safari

Coming face to face with your instincts, unsocialised or undomesticated urges. What happens on the safari will probably illustrate how well you relate to your own inner animal. See: Animals in your Brain; Animals

In a sense any dream containing wild or undomesticated animals is a safari dream. The third example shows how we have fear of the ‘wild’ sides of our nature, and how we deal with fear changes as we meet it.

Also a number of the dreams in my database area about clothing, which suggests the image one is portraying. Probably an outdoor sporty image, ready for anything type.

 Example: I was expecting Ben, but it is Michael, decked out in new clothes, safari style. The colours are all greens: leather coat, khaki shirt, dark pants. He is jaunty, strutting. He walks around the table to give me a closer look at his duds.

Example: At one point I am surprised to see that the safari suit that I am wearing is different from the one I thought it was – it is kind of reddish brown with furry or hairy material. I didn’t even know I had one like this.

Example: Now I am in a place like a safari park, but perhaps it is actually in a country natural to the wild animals. It is very dim and misty, and I, along with other people are in a fenced area in which is living accommodation for us to holiday in. The animals, I feel nervously, are ‘out there’ in the mist somewhere and might appear suddenly, so I need to keep alert in case of danger. I walk along a boundary fence, which is on my left. A wild looking animal/man appears and threatens me, he is holding a large knife. I have a large wooden spear in my hands and harry him with it. I feel more than equal to him. As I poke at him the knife now suddenly appears to be plastic and his appearance becomes more refined. Although he still has a slightly dwarfed body, or a hunched back, he has an intelligent and cultured face. I feel we can be friends. I then walk further along in the direction I was going and enter what appears to be a massive cave. I have the information from somewhere that ‘they’ have hollowed out this cave from the solid rock, and I am impressed by the results. The cave is about thirty feet high, and sixty long, in the shape of an inverted U. It is also wide. A lot of people are inside, playing or relaxing. Tom

An interesting dream because it shows how if we are not cowed by fear of the instinctive sides of our nature we can find a different relationship with them. Tom does not try to kill the animal/man – which is an excellent description of most humans – but is ready to defend himself, the threat turns out to be harmless and it also transforms the animal/man to a more intelligent and cultured person. Having a personality, a self, is a very new thing, but has a huge background of instinctive behaviour, which often we do not deal with well, feeling fear or repressing it. Tom’s dream goes on to show the impressive work of this side of our nature.

 

Useful questions and hints:

What image do I have of myself in regard to a safari?

Am I frightened of even terrified of wild creatures?

Have I ever felt close to a wild animal?

What do I when faced by my own wild reactions?

See Programmed – Self Observation – Autonomous Complex – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Saffron Robe

Wisdom, renunciation. Letting go of personal desire or ego.

Sailing

How are you at handling unforeseen things in your life or difficult feeling? The images in sailing lend themselves to depict human endeavours to work with the tides and influences of life.

Dealing well with wind and waves: Suggests being able to meet internal and external pressures, emotions and drives, and using them to advantage.

Being overwhelmed or sinking: Finding emotional, sexual drives and anxieties too much to cope with. See: boat and ship.

Example: I am always joining a ship. Sometimes I manage to board the ship only to reach my cabin to find I’ve all my uniform dirty, or I have forgotten to pack tropical gear, or my gear is dirty. I am trying to get to the laundry to have it washed ready for sailing.

Not being ready for his big inner adventure. See The Inner World

 Example: I was sitting in a boat. It was a small sailing boat, on the sea. In one hand I was holding an ash tray with a joint, in the other hand was a glass of wine. I realised I couldn’t steer the boat while I was holding both. Bitz.

This dream clearly shows how the dreamer’s habits of drinking and smoking leave him unable to steer the ‘boat’ of his life properly.

Idioms: Plain sailing; sail against the wind; sail close to the wind; sail into something; sail under false colours; set sail; trim one’s sails; take the wind out of someone sails.

 

Useful questions and hints:

Have you developed adaptability meeting life’s changes?

Are you ready to direct your life and guide it well?

Am I strong enough to face the ocean?

See Our Reaction to meeting the Huge that we Are – Nothing Can Hurt You in Your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Sailor

One’s ability to meet the storms and calms of life. Your means or strategies of coping with emotions. Desire to change, to move, to see more of life. Ability to cope with life.

Sailors are often indicators of adventure or a lover – perhaps a sexual adventure or a desire to roam the world.

We often do things in our dreams that have no place there. For example, we may dream of falling into the sea and be terrified we will drown. That is ridiculous because we can easily breathe under water in a dream, or fly, or die and be re-born. The sea we fear drowning in, the sky we fear falling from, the monsters we run from, are our own emotions. We drown in sorrow, we fall in our own estimation, and we may run from responsibility or decisions. Learning to breathe under water, to fly, to confront monsters in our dreams is a way of learning how to handle our own feelings – just like a sailor learns to handle the sea. It is a life skill. But sailors may, in times of war, face battle conditions, so are trained to face the major conflicts of one’s life.

All of us need to be sailors of our own emotions. Just as it is a good policy to learn to swim and drive a car – so it is good to learn how to deal with emotions such as anger, sexual hunger. Cars and water we may only face occasionally – our emotions and fears we meet twenty-four hours a day for a lifetime.

Idiom: swear like a sailor; all the nice girls love a sailor; sailors have a girl in every port

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do I have a desire for adventure, to see more of life…the desire to change?

If I am, or have been a sailor, do memories or experience still influence me?

What is happening to me in the dream?

What feelings or emotions did I experience?

See Martial Art of the Mind – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Saint

See: Guru.

Salad

Sometimes this is a direct reference to your body’s need for such foods. It might also suggest the lack of meaty – sexual – experience, or you are taking in feelings and influences that are alive and create personal growth. Like plants in a dream, the salad can indicate the living growing things in you, or if you are dieting it might have a message connected with food choices. If you eat salad regularly then it is about your life choices – your way of life.  See: Food

Some people see salad as rabbit’s food, so if you have that association it is saying something about losing out on something you feel you need.

Or if there are any thoughts or aim to eat salad to slim, then the dream is probably commenting on your aim of slimming.

Example: ‘I was looking everywhere for some green stuff to eat. I saw a field of cabbages, but, as they were not mine, could not eat the leaves.’ A couple of days before, the dreamer had prepared a salad for dinner, as it was winter, and the family were getting few ‘living’ foods. So we see that the conscious concern over ‘living’ foods has been used as a symbol in the dream. Thus the search for green leaves represents a search for something of her own that is living. The woman had been wondering what her own personal capabilities in life were. As the dream shows, she will not be satisfied or feel happy by simply taking or copying what others have done, or eating/using the rewards of their labours.

Example: A diet dream occurred to a man. In the dream he was climbing a staircase, but on every step were salads and dairy produce. This is implying that every step of his self-improvement or climb in life, depended on the right type of food.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is there any hint about dieting or slimming in the dream?

Does the dream suggest you need a simple, but nourishing experiences?

What feeling did you experience in the dream?

See Emotions and Mood – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic (it’s not the gluten)

Saliva Spit Spittle

Love or hate. It carries your inner feelings or spirit with it. The feelings connected with the saliva suggest what ‘energy’ it carries with it.

Your essence or spirit; the emotional or feeling energy of your being. Ancient people said the saliva carried mana that might be translated as life energy. The saliva, if it is from someone else, may suggest feelings of repulsion unless we love that person.

Spitting: Projecting one’s emotional energy. The mood or attitude with which one does this gives the clue to what you are ‘putting out’ to others or the world, or ‘spitting up’ out of your own feelings, sometimes links with bitterness or anger.

Spitting out lots of teeth: Something you want to ‘spit out’ in the sense of admitting, saying, or expressing something emotionally.

Example: ‘For some considerable time now I have been troubled by a nightmarish dream which is so realistic sometimes I think I am going to die. In my dream I have swallowed something which is literally choking me or is going to poison me. I wake up and rush down the stairs to the kitchen spitting and choking, holding my throat and making all sorts of disturbing noises that frighten my wife. I have had this dream as many as five or six times a night. My doctor says it could be to do with the last war. I was a child then and my dad had to constantly wake me up to take us down to the shelter, sometimes as many as four times a night, and we were bombed out twice. I cannot recall having any fears about this at the time.’ Mr. K. T

Mr. K. was obviously trying to spit out difficult feelings from his childhood. See Life’s Little Secrets – Children’s Traumatic Fears

 Example: It started with me meeting a man (or rather a boy of about 17 – I’m 25) that I don’t recognize, but in the dream we knew each other. We were sitting on a couch at a café and for some reason I tried to kiss him, but instead of kissing me back, he spat me in the face. I ran out of the café to take a bus home. At the bus stop, there was a trash bin with a dead fox and a dead crow in it.

So I feel you offered love, and that is a very powerful thing – but you didn’t get the response you expected. Then you ran away. The young man represents, I guess, your feelings about wanting a man in your life, and then the rejection. Have you felt rejection in the past? The spitting comes from being confronted by something so painful that you feel that life without love is like a living death. But you could change what are habits of reaction by using Secrets of Power Dreaming 

Saliva: Most mammals lick their young at birth as in the photo. Not only does the touch soothe the baby it also comforts it for it is not alone to face the ‘World’.

A common belief is that saliva contained in the mouth has natural disinfectants, which leads people to believe it is beneficial to “lick their wounds”. Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville have discovered a protein called nerve growth factor (NGF) in the saliva of mice. Wounds doused with NGF healed twice as fast as untreated and unlicked wounds; therefore, saliva can help to heal wounds in some species. NGF has not been found in human saliva; however, researchers find human saliva contains some antibacterial agents.

As well as being growth factors, IGF-I and TGF-α induce antimicrobial peptides.^[30] Saliva also contains an analgesic, opiorphin. Licking will also tend to debride the wound and remove gross contamination from the affected area. In a recent study, scientists have confirmed through several experiments that the protein responsible for healing properties in human saliva is, in fact, histatin. Scientists are now looking for ways to make use of this information in ways that can lead to chronic wounds, burns, and injuries being healed by saliva.

 Useful Questions and Hints:

Does the dream suggest giving of your strength or healing?

If I am spitting, what expression am I spitting out…anger, bitterness, disgust?

Am I really just clearing mucous?

Saloon

See: Bar-room.